I challenge you to do a true comparison of those plans. My guess is they were capped plans that would only last for a partial cancer treatment. You've off loaded your risk to the public, best case (for you).

This also ignores the millions who could never buy care at any price. Let's pretend your plan actually manages to cover your cancer, you go into remission. You do realize that cancer usually re-occurs. Luckily for your insurance company, they can dump your expensive ass because you now are the proud owner of a pre-existing condition.

Let me guess, you live in one of the 19 states that declined to expand Medicare. You should put the blame where it belongs, with your shittty state government.Alternatively, if your in rural area, there might only be afew options for hospital and insurers. That's your beloved free market at work.

Healthcare is not a commodity. Do you feel that it's truly interchangeable no matter the source? Would you object to being shipped to a hospital in rural Iowa if the ones in New York were to busy? Do you think outcomes are the same? They aren't.http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/559394

The huge benefit of the US system, which is immaterial to most of us, is that you can cut inline if you have enough money. It doesn't matter how important you are, it just matters that your check clears.

Pre-Obamacare, there were many plans that had a low annual cap. They were inexpensive,and popular for people who had enough money to afford insurance, because they were cheap.I'm sure most people, if they were smart enough to realize what they had, assumed that they would still get care after their insurance ran out. They were often right. Who picks up that bill, isn't that just about the stupidest and least consistent way to handle a single payer system? Because all those bills eventually come back to the Federal government, if nothing else, as tax rebates for indigent care.